Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas by Adam Kay is an amusing nonfiction book about all the Christmases the author spent working in various hospitals. The new guy always picked up the Christmas shifts.
As with all Adam Kay’s books, this is in the form of diary entries and footnotes.
Adam Kay writes with humor and in a very personable style. This is my third book by him and I feel like I ‘know’ him!
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This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay is a very insightful book about the life of a junior doctor over the years.
It is written in the form of diary entries. Adam Kay specialised in obstetrics and gynecology.
Adam Kay has a very personable style and is highly humorous. Humor is used to cope through some very stressful situations.
We see that at all stages, doctors are over worked, often continuing working long after their shifts officially ended. They are dedicated to the patients they serve.
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Before Your Memory Fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is the third book in the Before The Coffee Gets Cold series but can be read as a stand-alone. I recommend reading the previous books first for maximum enjoyment.
Before The Coffee Gets Cold series has really spoken to my heart. The books are about love, life, regrets and memories. They are uniquely crafted by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and beautifully executed.
Before Your Memory Fades is so beautiful and poignant. We meet those who are grieving and have regrets and frustrations. Grief takes many forms. For some, they want to lock up their lives and never smile again. They believe that to smile, is to feel guilty for living. “I’m worried that you will forget how to smile when I die.” Our loved ones want us to remember and to smile when they are gone. We smile again, in memory of their love.
Death is not the end, as long as we remember our loved ones in our hearts, they live on. “Even though I die, as long as you don’t forget me, I’ll always be in your heart.” Death happens but memories enable us to live on.
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Tales From The Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a delightful contemporary novel and the second book in the Before The Coffee Gets Cold series. It can be read as a stand-alone but I recommend reading book one first.
Once more the reader returns to a small coffee shop in Tokyo. It is a place suspended in time where hearts can be changed by a single visit.
We learn that love and relationships are what is really important. We cannot change the past but by confronting the past, we can have mindset changes that will affect our present and future. We can have hope again.
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